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Delightful Dagger

Apatela vinnula

Plate XVIII — Delightful Dagger is Fig. 25
Plate XVIII — Delightful Dagger is Fig. 25

This pretty and easily recognizable species feeds in the larval stage upon the elm and ranges from the Atlantic coast to the border of the Great Plains. It comes very freely to sugar.